Last minute Itinerari Scheggia e Pascelupo

Scheggia, Pascelupo and outskirts

The Ermo di San Girolamo di Monte Cucco is a marvellous example of such architecture, also known as Ermo di Pascelupo, built around the year thousand at the base of a spectacular hish rocky wall more than one hundred meters. The luxuriant vegetation and the amphitheatre of calcareous rock on which the hermitage rises, make it a unique landscape in its kind.  

Founded by San Romualdo in 1014 in the Valle di Sitria to the feet of the Nocria Mount, the Eremo and Abbazia of Sitria articulates in small cells of stone and wood. The abbey is of notable stylistic and architectural interest. It's entirely built with square stone in one balanced composition of Romanesque and Gothic motives, to an only aisle and with an interesting crypt underlying the greater altar, in pure Romanesque style, held up by a column with slow-ancient capital.

There is then the hermitage of Sant'Emiliano in Congiuntoli, probably founded by the Benedictine monks in the X century, it's a marvellous construction with a mix of Romanesque and Gothic elements. It rises in the conjunction (from which the name " Congiuntoli") of the river Rio Freddo and of the Sentino, it's composed by two aisles by the rigid and refined architecture, severe but at the same time sought.

The civic Tower is the only one remained of the six born to control the six doors of the ancient castle. It was built around the year 1300.

In the valley among the river Sentino and the Catria Mount   there's a zone of world interest for what concerns the breakthroughs geo-palaeontology for the stratus of the Appennino between Umbria and Marche, its name is Valdorbia. In this place is locate one of the most greater breakthroughs fossils dated around 180 million years ago, and it's a real point of reference for the researchers and Italian and international experts.